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Sugar-Coated Pills
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Sep 14
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Brad Skow
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“Controlled Experiments in Social Pathology”
At the Nuremberg Trials
Sep 5
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Brad Skow
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August 2025
On Beauty and Deformity
Ugliness is the opposite of beauty.
Aug 29
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Brad Skow
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Wilhelm Keitel at Nuremberg
Wilhelm Keitel was made chief of staff of the Armed Forces in 1938.
Aug 22
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Brad Skow
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Tales of Unintended Consequences, Volume 1
When the Bolsheviks won the Russian civil war, and put their hands on the levers of power, the liberation of women was high on their list of goals.
Aug 15
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Brad Skow
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Flaws as Meta-Merits
On the ending of Huckleberry Finn
Aug 8
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Brad Skow
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Paradise Lost, 2: the lives of angels, the nature of epic, and “good lines.”
Adam asks Raphael, and you would too, admit it, about the sex lives of angels...
Aug 1
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Brad Skow
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July 2025
“Abolish Marriage!”
Should governments get out of the marriage business?
Jul 25
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Brad Skow
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Goering at Nuremberg, 2
When not in the courtroom, the Nuremberg defendants were visited and interviewed by American psychiatrists.
Jul 21
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Brad Skow
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Goering at Nuremberg, 1
Robert H. Jackson was an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court by day, and one of the most eloquent men alive.
Jul 18
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Brad Skow
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Dispatch from the World of Payne
Jason Fitger, Professor of English, is charged on short notice and against his will with running Payne University’s Study Abroad program.
Jul 11
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Brad Skow
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June 2025
American Impressionist
As a concept, “American Impressionism was always oxymoronic, like, say, Canadian salsa”: surely this sentence is too good to be true?
Jun 27
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Brad Skow
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